Preferred Reading
Religious:
Temporal:
Religious:
- The Holy Bible
- The Liturgy of the Hours
- The Book of Christian Prayer
- The Catechism of the Catholic Church
- Spiritual Combat by Lorenzo Scupoli
- Spiritual Combat Revisited by Fr. Jonathan Robinson
- The Way by Saint Jose Marie Escriva
- Christianity and the Crisis of Culture, Spe Salvi, Charity and Truth, and all works
by Pope Benedict or Joseph Ratzinger - Loborem Excercens, The Theology of the Body and all works by John Paul the
Great - Be a Man by Fr. Larry Richards
- Wild at Heart, The Way of the Wild Heart by John Eldridge
- The Screw Tape Letters, Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
- Orthodoxy by CK Chesterton
Temporal:
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
- The 5th Discipline by Peter Senge
- The Mindful Universe by Henry Stapp
- Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel by Rebecca Goldstein
Prayers from the Liturgy of the Hours:
Lord, God of strength, You gave your Son victory over death. Direct Your
Church's fight against evil in the world. Clothe us with the weapons of light
and unite us under one banner of love, that we may receive our eternal reward
after the battle of earthly life. Amen
God our Father, work is your gift to us, a call to reach new heights by using
our talents for the good of all. Guide us as we work and teach us to live in the
spirit that has made us your sons and daughters. In the love that has made us
brothers and sisters. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen
Father, Yours is the harvest and Yours is the vineyard: You assign the task
and pay a wage that is just. Help us to meet this day's responsibilities, and let
nothing separate us from Your love. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen
God of mercy, this midday moment of rest is your welcome gift. Bless the work
we have begun, make good its defects and let us finish it in a way that pleases
You. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Send the fire of the Holy Spirit deep within us, Lord so that we can serve you
with chaste bodies and please you with pure minds. Amen
Responsory:
We are warriors now, fighting on the battlefield of faith, and God sees all we
do; the Angels watch and so does Christ.
-What honor and glory and joy, to do battle in the presence of God and to have
Christ approve our victory.
Let us arm ourselves in full strenght and prepare ourselves for the ultimate
struggle with blameless hearts, true faith and unyileding courage.
-What honor and glory and joy, to do battle in the presence of God and to have
Christ approve our victory.
From Psalm 24:
The Lord's is the earth and its fullness
the world and all its peoples.
It is He who set in on the seas;
on the waters He made it firm.
Who shall climb the mountain of the Lord?
Who shall stand in his holy place?
The man with clean hands and pure heart,
who desires not worthless things,
who has not sworn so as to decieve his neighbor.
Amos 5:8
He who made the Pleiades and Orion
who turns darkness into dawn,
and darkens day into night;
Who summons waters of the sea,
and pours them out upon the surface of the earth;
Whose name is Lord
Antiphon:
Armed with God's justice and power, let us prove ourselves through paitient
endurance.
Psalm 104 verses 16 through 23:
The trees of the Lord drink their fill
the cedars he planted on Lebanon;
there the birds build their nests:
on the tree top the stork has her home,
the goats find a home on the mountains
and the rabbits hide in the rocks.
You made the moon to mark the months
the sun the time for its setting.
When You spread the darkness it is night
and all the beasts of the forest creep forth.
The young lions roar for their prey
and ask their food from God.
At the rising of the sun they steal away
and go to rest in their dens.
Man Goes forth to his work,
to labor till evening falls.
Job 38:3
Gird your loins like a man. I will question you and you shall declare me.
Lord, God of strength, You gave your Son victory over death. Direct Your
Church's fight against evil in the world. Clothe us with the weapons of light
and unite us under one banner of love, that we may receive our eternal reward
after the battle of earthly life. Amen
God our Father, work is your gift to us, a call to reach new heights by using
our talents for the good of all. Guide us as we work and teach us to live in the
spirit that has made us your sons and daughters. In the love that has made us
brothers and sisters. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen
Father, Yours is the harvest and Yours is the vineyard: You assign the task
and pay a wage that is just. Help us to meet this day's responsibilities, and let
nothing separate us from Your love. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen
God of mercy, this midday moment of rest is your welcome gift. Bless the work
we have begun, make good its defects and let us finish it in a way that pleases
You. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Send the fire of the Holy Spirit deep within us, Lord so that we can serve you
with chaste bodies and please you with pure minds. Amen
Responsory:
We are warriors now, fighting on the battlefield of faith, and God sees all we
do; the Angels watch and so does Christ.
-What honor and glory and joy, to do battle in the presence of God and to have
Christ approve our victory.
Let us arm ourselves in full strenght and prepare ourselves for the ultimate
struggle with blameless hearts, true faith and unyileding courage.
-What honor and glory and joy, to do battle in the presence of God and to have
Christ approve our victory.
From Psalm 24:
The Lord's is the earth and its fullness
the world and all its peoples.
It is He who set in on the seas;
on the waters He made it firm.
Who shall climb the mountain of the Lord?
Who shall stand in his holy place?
The man with clean hands and pure heart,
who desires not worthless things,
who has not sworn so as to decieve his neighbor.
Amos 5:8
He who made the Pleiades and Orion
who turns darkness into dawn,
and darkens day into night;
Who summons waters of the sea,
and pours them out upon the surface of the earth;
Whose name is Lord
Antiphon:
Armed with God's justice and power, let us prove ourselves through paitient
endurance.
Psalm 104 verses 16 through 23:
The trees of the Lord drink their fill
the cedars he planted on Lebanon;
there the birds build their nests:
on the tree top the stork has her home,
the goats find a home on the mountains
and the rabbits hide in the rocks.
You made the moon to mark the months
the sun the time for its setting.
When You spread the darkness it is night
and all the beasts of the forest creep forth.
The young lions roar for their prey
and ask their food from God.
At the rising of the sun they steal away
and go to rest in their dens.
Man Goes forth to his work,
to labor till evening falls.
Job 38:3
Gird your loins like a man. I will question you and you shall declare me.
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